We Live Here Now - Paperback

by C. D. Rose (Author)

WINNER OF THE 2025 GOLDSMITHS PRIZE


A wickedly smart, Borgesian novel that explores the boundaries between art and life, vision and reality, beauty and commerce . . .

When visitors to a famous conceptual artist's installation start mysteriously disappearing, the aftershocks radiate outwards through twelve people who were involved in the project, changing all of their lives, and launching them on a crazy-quilt trajectory that will end with them all together at one final, apocalyptic bacchanal.

Mixing illusion and reality, simulacra and replicants, sound artists and death artists, performers and filmmakers and theorists and journalists, We Live Here Now ranges across the world of weapons dealers and international shipping to the galleries and studios on the cutting edge of hyper-contemporary art. It spins a dazzling web that conveys, with eerie precision, the sheer strangeness of what it is like to be alive today.

Author Biography

C.D. Rose is the author of four previous books including The Blind Accordionist, Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea, and Who's Who When Everyone is Someone Else. He was awarded The Goldsmiths Prize in 2025. He currently teaches at the University of Birmingham in Birmingham, England.